workers in the lab at that time. if you are able to go back and look at those blood samples and say, did they show antibodies to the covid virus, then that would be another pretty definitive piece of data. and then you would obviously want to have a complete forensics investigation of the lab. but it is these things, these types of things that we do not have still. that has been the lack of transparency that so many people have been talking about. i think the answer to the question that everybody is answering ins noble, but we don t know it because we don t have all the data. sanjay it s interesting because you even spoke to some of the scientists who worked in wuhan. what did they say about how hard it is to get information in china? they say it is really hard. it s interesting because there is this world health investigation i talked to peter dasha who also runs ecohealth alliance, the organization that was doing research in wuhan. so he had sort of two halves that he w
this pandemic. which requires more than likely caused by science. there is a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking wuhan china, what do we do? you know we can ask? the wuhan respiratory coronavirus lab. the disease is the same name as the lab. let me see your business card, show me your business card. oh, i work at the coronavirus lab in wuhan. because there is a coronavirus loose in go louann, how did that happen? maybe a bat flew into the turkey and then it sneezed into my chili and now we all have coronavirus. wait a second. [applause]
to reconnect an undersea communication cable. it is among a raft of catastrophic damage to property and infrastructure, and as you say, aid coming in from many, many countries led by australia and new zealand. water is a significant issue. any water supplies on the archipelago were contaminated by that ash that rained down on this pacific nation of about 105,000 people and this will be an international aid effort like no other. authorities in tonga are introducing very strict disease control measures because tonga has just recorded only one known coronavirus case since the pandemic began, so clearly it doesn t want to recover from one disaster by inviting another in. so what they are doing is foreign aid workers, in order to go into the country, will have two adhere to three
them 1.5 billion pounds for not reaching annual targets. the targets are quite high. royal mail have to deliver 93% of all first class post within one day, that is the target set by the regulator. it is all very well saying, get your act together, does that suggest they do not believe the royal mail when they say it is because of coronavirus and staff absences. they want to see improvements. royal mail made £726 million last year and pre tax profits. the cost of a first class stamp by more than 20% last year. the regulator expecting more. here is the weather.
it must improve its service after some people got their christmas post in the middle ofjanuary. the company said delivery offices had been struggling because of staffing problems created by coronavirus. i ve been speaking to our business correspondent, ramzan karmali. royal mail .2 coronavirus and the omicron variant. the first week in january 15,000 people were absent from work, about double what they would have expected. in 2020 it was lower even though we did have coronavirus at the time. ofcom have come out and said, if you don t get your act together, we are going to take action. ofcom have got previous. back in 2020 they find